For over a year (since May 2019), Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder and the truth teller remains detained in Britain's (England's) notorious Belmarsh Prison. He is also gravely ill stemming from years in the Ecuadorian embassy. He has purposely been held in solitary confinement. It's not only to isolate him from other prisoners, especially those who are sympathetic to his work. It's meant to make him go insane. Insanity and solitary confinement have turned normal, less well known prisoners into psychological and emotional stressed people. In his last trial in October 2019, he struggled to speak and his brain couldn't function properly. Lack of mental functioning is a consequence of solitary confinement or long term isolation. Assange and Wikileaks' years of work has brought the US and European security states' denial, abuses and out of sight out of mind counter terrorism and zero tolerance for any criticism of its questionable foreign policies across the world into focus and the world's attention. It's not a secret that the War on Terrorism now in its 20th year, has been used by Western governments be it the United States, Israel, France, UK, Turkey and Canada to demonize any dissidents from citizens and whistleblowers who exhaustively publish the abuses of war victims or even the human rights violations against their own citizens (ongoing in the U.S. now) often shrugged off by politicians and lobbyists more concerned for their survival than the needs of their citizens and larger society. The United States Justice Department (Ministry of Justice) has leveled 18 count indictments against Assange. Famed lingust professor turned US foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky has condemened Assange prison treatment and impending extradition trial as "an international scandal." The famed journalist and filmmaker John Pilger, fellow Australian currently living in the UK, is a friend of Assange and interviewed him on several occassions. Assange appears in Pilger's documentaries the War you don't See and the War on Democracy. Pilger known for his humanistic approach and sympathizing with the suffering people brutalized by the state in his award winning reporting and documentaries has condemned Assange's prison treatment. He along with Assange's supporters have campaigned and protested tiredlessly for the British government to at least consider halting Assange's extradition and a compassionate release for Assange's health. Pilger perosnally witnessed Assange's trial and followed his struggles before he entered the embassy. Pilger and Assange's supporters will continue to protest as long as it takes for Assange to recieve a medicum of justice.
All the strings of the geopolitical spider web is well known to Assange. He understands that the U.S. along with its allies' unofficial Western army NATO and the loyal media pundits and military industrial complex aka defense contractors, lobbyists and companies will commit political and economic crimes against any country that challenges the Anglo-Americans to keep the continual full spectrum dominance over the rest of the world. Even if it means locking up whistleblowers or forcing them into years of legal limbo. While questioning their citizenship and patriotism. For the United States, Assange is a traitor and has been condemned by all levels of the establishment, American and British journalists, intelligence experts and even ordinary citizens. Committing treason for exposing state secrets about the U.S., UK and others. Keep in mind, Assange is not a U.S. citizen. Neither are his parents, brother or children. He has only visited the U.S. once. Glenn Greenwald a U.S. journalist living in Brazil and founder of the investigative news site the Intercept, criticized Assange's extradition as extraterritorial overreach by the United States. What other hegemonic power or empire ever had the right to demand that non-citizens convicted of crimes in one country be tried in the hegemon's courts? Even though classified memos and documents were released to the public by Wikileaks, Assange still has the right to fight against extradition to the United States under British and US laws. Assange has many sympathizers and legal and geopolitical experts on his side that have been calling for a fair trial and to fight against extradition. His father John Shipton and brother have attended ongoing protests and vigils in London calling for Assange's release from Belmarsh Prison. His father is worried about his son's life with his ailing health. Assange's home country Australia has had mixed feelings toward him. He appealed to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to bring his son home via diplomatic intervention. PM Morrison responded that Assange will "get no special treatment and will be treated like everyone else." Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who was criticized by Wikileaks, was slightly more sympathetic to Assange by saying his punishment is unacceptable.
Don't forget the millions of civilians now trapped by NATO backed takfiri/Jihadi terrorists in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Northern Nigeria (in a country that had no takfiri terror groups until 2008), who blockades and rig booby trap bombs alongside the abandonment of refugees and IDPS. Not to forget that the takfiris, the appropriate name for ISIS, Al Qaeda and its lackey cousins, are part of the NATO countries' proxy war against the struggling but surviving Bashar al Assad government, the Afghan and the weak, unpopular Iraqi government due to austerity measures. The social destruction despite the ordinary people's struggle to keep Iraq, Syria and Yemen together are linked. The Cradle of civilization Mesopatamia (one of many) where the world's first laws, people's rights societies were formed four thousand years ago is now being dissected by the same countries who preach and shout from the rooftops about the importance of democracy having peaceful societies, social cohesion not allowing ethnic conflicts to destroy their own societies. The United States has been battling ethnic divisions long before the Manchild in Chief Trump entered the White House and so has France, UK and Turkey with the Kurds. That is a story for another day.
For all the accolades and praises NATO countries give themselves on having stable societies and democracies all hell breaks loose if a citizen of a NATO country points out the hypocritical and excesses of Western foreign policy abroad. This double standard was not lost on Assange or his fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden who remains persona non grata in his own birth country of the United States. Much as Assange spent some 7 years hauled up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for his protection and to continue his publishing on multiple subjects ranging from war crimes, corruption, financial scandals and dubious diplomatic deals. Also in prison is former American soldier Bradley Manning (Chelsea Manning) who had passed along documents and information to Wikileaks and Snowden. Snowden remains in Russia in self-imposed exile. He has earned hero status among the hackers and some people but the U.S. government has made it clear that returning home would mean prison for his own dossier on government spying and data collection. This was already known to Americans since 1950s especially people who lived through the entire Cold War. Declassified documents released by various US, British and French government agencies already confirmed the hidden and blunt methods the NATO alliance has used to keep its grand chessboard in motion while operating on borrowed time to stop the rise of the next superpowers. Never mind that feeding into the full spectrum dominance has bankrupted the U.S. more than any other country. The economists will insist that the U.S. economy is doing well. Socioeconomically, the United States and other NATO countries are experiencing the same political instability although it is referred to as a "crisis" as it has lobbed against Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba (still facing an embargo for the 1959 Cuban revolution), Ukraine Midan and subsequent civil war in Eastern Ukraine or Novorussia and now in Belarus.
Sins of the Cold War warrior & passing of the baton to the War on Terror soldier
Ongoing proxy wars and military abuses across the Middle East and Central Asia continued to drive Assange to exposing as much video and audio footage until his arrest. Brutality and humiliation against civilians by NATO and its proxy allied governments. Famous video of the targeted killings of Iraqi journalists and children where you can hear American soldiers non chantantly excusing away their laughter as people are blown to bits in the name of fighting terrorists. The same abuses and killings were logged by Wikileaks for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen where tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children have been experienced and witnessed drone bombings carried out by soldiers sitting thousands of miles away. Now Saudi Arabia blockades Yemen's ports and continual attacks against the Houthi rebels that have devastating effects on Yemeni civilians facing starvation and made homeless by Saudi, UAE and gulf countries bombing strikes. In countries where the civilians have the war in the back of their minds. Both Afghanistan and Yemen have witnessed two decades of war that originally began long before America's War on Terror or 9/11 attacks.
Afghanistan had already been decimated by the 1979 Soviet Invasion that lasted ten years and turned the once secular, modern and prosperous Central Asian country into a ghost of its former self. Perhaps Afghanistan would've enjoyed social and political stability like its neighbors Tajikistan and Kazakhstan had Taliban rule and the second war never entered the country.The same can be said of Yemen. Until 1991, Yemen was technically two countries in one. Northern Yemen home to the country's ancient capital Sana'a became the "Democratic" pro West and anti-communist nation while Southern Yemen where the cities of Aden and Taiz are located became a socialist country originally fighting against the U.S. and Europe soon after its independence from Britain in 1967. The same year that the Six Day war between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria occurred. Again all this events happening simultaneously are not by accident. Being pro West itself not bad unless the government's actions have severe consequences for society as a whole. The mentioned countries were former British colonies that Britain later France helped the United States to destabilize when the countries elected popular, socialist leaders and parliaments in the 1960s and 70s. Most well known being the Baath Party and the liberation movements turned political parties. In the beginning, the groups and governments genuinely cared about their people and wanted their respective countries to develop economically, socially and culturally independent of the two non-aligned rivals the Soviet Union and the United States backed by NATO. Some of who lamented the lost of their former colonies and feared a worldwide karma if the non-aligned movement ever grew in strength to topple them. Today the non align movement from the Cold War aka the Third Way of operating outside the powerful East and West (now it is China and the U.S. bucking heads) has been minimized but still exists. Syria and Iran still operate under the non-aligned movement's principles of independence from the world's hegemon and Russia. Venezuela is also part of the non-alignment is also facing an onslaught of demonization, political instability and economic collapse most man made from sanctions, US attempts to overthrow the former Chavez and now Madero governments.
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